Carl Jung
Carl Jung
Carl Gustav Jungwas a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology. His work has been influential not only in psychiatry but also in philosophy, anthropology, archaeology, literature, and religious studies. He was a prolific writer, though many of his works were not published until after his death...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth26 July 1875
CityKesswil, Switzerland
CountrySwitzerland
Carl Jung quotes about
The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is... lack of faith.
The puzzling thing is that there is really a curious coincidence between astrological and psychological facts, so that one can isolate time from the characteristics of an individual, and also, one can deduce characteristics from a certain time....
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
What is not brought to consciousness, comes to us as fate.
It is only our deeds that reveal who we are.
You are a slave of what you need in your soul.
This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.
The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.
The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.
The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
I would rather be whole than good.
The sight of a child…will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons — longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs of those parts of the personality which have been blotted out of the total picture in favor of the adapted persona.
Knowledge does not enrich us; it removes us more and more from the mythic world in which we were once at home by right of birth.
The longing for light is the longing for consciousness.